Human rights groups slam woman’s strip search
By April Burcer Various human rights groups are calling for the investigation of the reported strip search of a female drug suspect in a police station in Makati City that went viral last week. Gabriela and Karapatan released separate statements condemning the act as despicable, cruel and degrading. “What the Makati Police did to the arrested drug suspects was […]
Activists defend rights commission, slam 1000 budget by HoR
BANGKOK, Thailand—Activists came to the defense of the beleaguered Commission on Human Rights (CHR) after the House of Representatives (HoR) gave the agency a thousand-peso budget in 2018. In a statement, human rights group Karapatan said the 119 representatives who approved the punitive budget are “sycophants…(who) are having a field day with their fascist and […]